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It's amazing to think there was somebody named JO cox
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May 6, 2017 20:26
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get that OUT of my face posted:corbyn seems like a lovely leader but so would any blairite trash that will be stepping in after labour gets thrashed i dunno i reckon a blairite that didn't look like wallace from wallace & gromit would have done fine against the may
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May 6, 2017 21:38
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:i dunno i reckon a blairite that didn't look like wallace from wallace & gromit would have done fine against the may Yeah miliband had a problem that was separate from any policy, his goofy gumpy looking face. I remember 2 years ago watching the leaders' debates and he would just stare directly into the camera with his eyes all big and googly to 'directly address the viewer' and it made your skin crawl. T May on the other hand has a real visage. She looks like she should be prime minister. She always looks very alert and earnest and capable and formidable. Whereas corbyn never stood a chance in hell, even an outside chance, because he looks like a shambolic communist held-over from the 1960s. hakimashou has issued a correction as of 22:04 on May 6, 2017 |
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May 6, 2017 22:01
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Corbyn shares my lust for global annihilation and had even put forward motions for it in parliament so I'll always like him
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May 6, 2017 22:09
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Corbyn may not be the Communist Britain needs, but he's the Communist Britain deserves.
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May 6, 2017 22:26
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get that OUT of my face posted:i'm confused as to why they use the word "murdered" for jo cox instead of the spot-on word "assassinated" Assassinations are only the province of marxists and brown people, unlike noted gardener and good lad Thomas Mair who just went a bit mental because immigrants were going to take his council house. The Daily Mail said so!
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May 6, 2017 22:52
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hakimashou posted:T May on the other hand has a real visage. She looks like she should be prime minister. She always looks very alert and earnest and capable and formidable. You think the prime minister should look like a Skeksis?
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May 6, 2017 22:55
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:You think the prime minister should look like a Skeksis? Yes
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May 6, 2017 23:13
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Jose posted:labour might have done better with someone else as leader but they're still getting hosed because the tories are really popular since brexit killed UKIP and brexit is really popular. just trying to think for five minutes about what a right-labourist brexit strategy would be is enough to lose hope in them centre-left parties have been declining all over the western world. the democrats were a hollow shell and then trump broke the shell. the parti socialiste were a footnote in the election to replace their own incumbent president. SYRIZA got in because PASOK collapsed. another plastic smiler might stem the bleed a little but they wouldn't be saving labour
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May 6, 2017 23:14
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the press keeps trying to hype blair as a returning king arthur only to stall against the fact that he's even less popular than corbyn despite corbyn having the worst press of any major politician since uh, the last labour leader lol
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May 6, 2017 23:31
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the fun part is if labour had actually done what they promised in three consecutive winning manifestos and changed the voting system to something less stupid it might be possible for another non-tory party to emerge and not just split the vote everywhere, but of course they had big majorities so they didn't want to fix the roof while the sun was shining hi canada
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May 6, 2017 23:35
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Peel posted:just trying to think for five minutes about what a right-labourist brexit strategy would be is enough to lose hope in them oh yeah syriza, the guys that let valve's chief videogame hat theorist run the economy. how's that working out for greece lol
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May 7, 2017 04:00
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If they had done what he said it might've turned out alright. Syriza failed because they wouldn't fulfill their own mandate.
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May 7, 2017 05:20
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that mug probably contributed to cox's murder
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May 7, 2017 08:48
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May 7, 2017 09:12
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:If they had done what he said it might've turned out alright. Syriza failed because they wouldn't fulfill their own mandate. its weird how the obviously impossible promises they made before the election ended up being impossible to fulfill on. couldnt have seen that one coming
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May 7, 2017 11:06
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it's plenty possible to leave the Euro, which is what everyone should have done 8 years ago
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May 7, 2017 16:23
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syriza was headed towards leaving the euro until they met with germany and their creditors. something hosed up must have been said because immediately after that meeting they said they wanted to stay
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May 7, 2017 19:46
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Venom Snake posted:I hope scotland leaves and seizes the nuclear sub bases and uses them to drive the english oppressors into the sea 
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May 7, 2017 19:51
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get that OUT of my face posted:syriza was headed towards leaving the euro until they met with germany and their creditors. something hosed up must have been said because immediately after that meeting they said they wanted to stay Yeah that was weird. It reminded me of how right before their inauguration every US president is presumably taken into a bunker by the CIA and told if they don't toe the line they'll be JFKed.
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May 7, 2017 20:02
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get that OUT of my face posted:syriza was headed towards leaving the euro until they met with germany and their creditors. something hosed up must have been said because immediately after that meeting they said they wanted to stay merkel called their bluff. switch back to the drachma and half the country is eating grass clippings within the week
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May 7, 2017 20:14
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Fallen Hamprince posted:merkel called their bluff. switch back to the drachma and half the country is eating grass clippings within the week Sounds healthy, filling, and plentiful.
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May 7, 2017 20:22
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Ultra right-wig nationalists have underperformed polling in the last 5 or 6 European elections in a row so I'm calling it for Corbyn "cheers" "mates"
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May 7, 2017 20:29
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Fallen Hamprince posted:merkel called their bluff. switch back to the drachma and half the country is eating grass clippings within the week Sounds better than mass suicide.
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May 7, 2017 21:35
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Why am I not surprised that Fallen Hamprince is a fan of the Euro.
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May 7, 2017 21:36
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Ultra right-wig nationalists have underperformed polling in the last 5 or 6 European elections in a row so I'm calling it for Corbyn "cheers" "mates" Problem is all the ultra right wing voters are just going to vote plain right wing instead Ain't British politics great
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May 8, 2017 00:28
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Ultra right-wig nationalists have underperformed polling in the last 5 or 6 European elections in a row so I'm calling it for Corbyn "cheers" "mates"
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May 8, 2017 03:19
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Ultra right-wig nationalists have underperformed polling in the last 5 or 6 European elections in a row so I'm calling it for Corbyn "cheers" "mates" that's just mainstream britain tho: and i must meme posted:
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May 8, 2017 07:37
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i still cant figure out if the snap election already happened or if everybody just knows it's inevitable the british will go fascist
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May 8, 2017 07:56
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 it's june 8th iirc
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May 8, 2017 08:10
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Homeless Friend posted:
It was made inevitable the day Jeremy Corbyn refused to resign after the brexit referendum.
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May 8, 2017 08:12
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Britain 2017: Hurrah for the Blackshirts but unironically
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May 8, 2017 12:09
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Fallen Hamprince posted:merkel called their bluff. switch back to the drachma and half the country is eating grass clippings within the week How? Introduce a new currency and inflate your way out of debt. The wealthy would never be able to vacation abroad, but that's the only major downside I see.
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May 8, 2017 17:23
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Aliquid posted:How? Introduce a new currency and inflate your way out of debt. The wealthy would never be able to vacation abroad, but that's the only major downside I see. a) Their debt is still denominated in Euros, so that doesn't work, and b) even if it did, Greece is not a self-sufficient economy: they need to import necessities from abroad. Having a worthless currency makes this rather difficult.
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Aliquid posted:How? Introduce a new currency and inflate your way out of debt. The wealthy would never be able to vacation abroad, but that's the only major downside I see. hyperinflation is not a very good way out of things and generally leads to people dying
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May 8, 2017 20:11
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greece defaulting on its debt would generally be a mutual suicide thing, but it would hit greece much, much harder than the rest of the eu.
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May 8, 2017 20:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s67JD3bKW0U
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May 8, 2017 21:59
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the EU should pay Greece's debt itself by fining the living poo poo out of the various banks that defrauded them by concealing Greece's existing finances when they applied but this would involve banks being penalized by a banking organization so
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Concerned Citizen posted:greece defaulting on its debt would generally be a mutual suicide thing, but it would hit greece much, much harder than the rest of the eu. Defaulting on unsustainable public debt isn't suicide. Indeed, Greece has already technically defaulted several times, taking small haircuts and accepting bailouts. I think they should have defaulted and aggressively restructured a much, much bigger chunk of their debt, as their current debt-to-GDP ratio is barely sustainable and basically mandates perpetual austerity. If anything, saddling future generations with a lifetime of debt peonage is suicide.
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